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Can't play embedded silverlight video in Firefox - Microsoft Media Server protocol source error

Asked by leo

Hi all,

I have installed Ubuntu 10.4 64-bits on a desktop (chipset G41, video card radeon HD5450, proprietary drivers ATI FPLG) and a laptop (video card GMA 900) with VLC, flash & totem player plugin, moonlight plugin, w64-codec from medibuntu. I have uninstalled mplayer on both machines and I cannot play a streaming video (silverlight) in firefox from this address : http://jt.france2.fr/20h/ (tv news) on the laptop whereas the desktop doest it...
As far as I remember, both PC have the same packages and software installed but on the laptop I got a first error message: "Your internet browser's plugin does not seem up-to-date (installed:2, needed:3)"
when I click on: "not use silverlight", strangely I can play the ad (whereas with my desktop I got only the remaining time counting down till I get my TV news streaming which is played nicely...) and then a popup message says that "Microsoft Media Server protocol source plugin needed". End of story.

I have read the related posts but this doen't help a lot as I got the right soft setup so I guess there is a need to un and re-install some stuff in a proper and clean way, about which I would like some of you guys to tell me the manip!

Thx in advance.

Leo67

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leo (detourmignies) said : 		#1

I have made a new and clean install of ubuntu 10.4 64-bit and exactly the same issue...

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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) said : 		#2

For watching news from the station you stated, use vlc [1]

[1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1446302

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leo (detourmignies) said : 		#3

Thanks for that but in the meantime I have used the following command: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras and though the video decoding isn't as good as with the original windows silverlight it's still playable.